Lower Elementary

Fircom Farm

A rural farm located at Fircom, a retreat centre, outdoor school, wedding venue and summer camp on Gambier Island, BC.

Participants get their hands in the dirt to learn all aspects of gardening and wholesome food preparation.
 

The Spiderweb Food Garden

The Spiderweb Garden, our organic food garden, was started 6 years ago by parents Wanda Georgis and Edna Ruiz. Our Greening Committee, now 12 dedicated Withrow School parents, has the support of teachers, students, Care Taking staff, Principal and Vice​- Principal.

Openlands Building School Gardens

Building School Gardens installs gardens at Chicago public schools to achieve the following purposes:

The Carrot Academy

The Carrot Academy is an initiative to offer alternative classroom like experiences to youth at our LOVE Building facility. A traditional Academy event allows children to go out into the garden and work with plants, weed and harvest, compost and plant. They then take some of  their bounty into the kitchen, prepare their meal and sit down and talk about a topic related to their self sufficiency, self esteem and sustainable food systems. Then they wash up and put their dishes away.

Kid's Cooking for Life

~~Kids Cooking for Life (KCL) is dedicated to empowering young people to enjoy the benefits, pleasures and skills of cooking healthy food; promoting longer, healthier and happier lives. It was developed to teach children how to cook and prepare healthy meals with the aim of preventing and reducing childhood obesity and equipping youth and their families to make mindful decisions about food.

Springhouse Green

 The reinvention of our food system is now part of the national dialogue with employers, employees, and communities at large looking to positively affect today’s concerns about escalating health care costs, food security and nutrition, personal and family health, community development, and “carbon footprint.” Springhouse Green offers simple solutions for greening corporate and community spaces with vegetable garden buildouts, nutrition counseling, lunch-and-learn workshops, garden maintenance services, and LEED applications.

Painted Rock Elementary School Garden

Edible school garden first being planted February 2014!  Will include garden classroom during lunchtime recess, as well as nutrition education and discussions on body image in the classrooms.

Steele Lane Elementary School Garden

We have four goals for our garden this year; to increase student contact time, to better align the program with Common Core Standards, to increase food production and to create a stronger school community through the garden's programs.

McKinley Elementary Garden

We have a school garden with each garden bed assigned to a different class.  We teach math, science, history, nutrition, and local food systems in the garden.

Cheremoya Edible Garden & Wildlands

Cheremoya Elementary is located in the heart of Hollywood directly below the famous Hollywood sign. We are a low-income and underserved school within LAUSD. Our garden is a small edible raised bed space utilizing part of the schools payground.  With the help of a group in Los Angeles that transforms spaces in gardens, ENRICHLA, we turned the asphalt into a cheerful, inviting space, where students are able to learn in an active, outdoor environment.  Our garden acts as catalyst to show students just how versatile, delicious, and FUN healthy food can be, developing positive attitudes toward h

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